Kittery man faces DWI charge after early morning crash in Dover

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Posted Oct. 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Updated Oct 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM

Posted Oct. 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Updated Oct 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM

DOVER — Police charged a Kittery, Maine, man with drunken driving after a crash early Wednesday morning on Dover Point Road.At approximately 2:34 a.m.. the Dover Police Department responded to the area of 159 Dover Point Road for a reported single-vehicle crash. The area is south of Tuttle Lane and north of Middle Road.The investigation, conducted by the Dover Police Department determined that a silver 2001 Honda Civic operated by Benjamin B. Hogan, 21, of 15 Cutts Island Lane, Kittery, Maine, was traveling south on Dover Point Road. The vehicle entered and traveled through the northbound travel lane, left the paved portion of the roadway before coming back onto the roadway, traveled back through the northbound travel lane and through the southbound travel lane before leaving the roadway and colliding with a large granite pillar. The vehicle suffered extensive damage and was towed from the scene. Hogan was transported to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover for non-life threatening injuries.Police charged Hogan with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled drug, also a misdemeanor.